Shield & Shade

<p><span style=color: rgba(22 33 39 1)>For fans of </span><strong style=color: rgba(22 33 39 1)>STORM AND FURY</strong><span style=color: rgba(22 33 39 1)> and </span><strong style=color: rgba(22 33 39 1)>MORTAL INSTRUMENTS</strong><span style=color: rgba(22 33 39 1)>. </span><em style=color: rgba(22 33 39 1)>The Ascended Guardians Series</em><span style=color: rgba(22 33 39 1)> is a supernatural thrill-ride that never lets up.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(22 33 39 1)>It's been over ten years since fifteen-year-old Zoey Taylor wandered away from her family home in the middle of the night. Or so she's been told repeatedly by her mother-but the only thing Zoey knows for sure is that when her older brother Corinth found her in the woods safe and unharmed she returned with a crippling fear of the dark and no other memories from those lost days-except strange flashes of sharp teeth and red-flaming hair.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(22 33 39 1)>Since that time she's become a star pupil and is on track to graduate early ... if and that's a big IF her overprotective family doesn't get in the way of her dreams first.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(22 33 39 1)>But when one of the wealthiest enigmatic philanthropists on the planet-Gabriel Stanton-shows up on her doorstep on Thanksgiving Day and reveals the truth about what really happened to her all those years ago it completely shatters her perception of the world.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(22 33 39 1)>And the story isn't anything like what she's been told.</span></p>